Renowned Investigative Journalist, and anti-corruption crusader, Manasseh Azure Awuni has revealed that he has lost trust and hope in President Akufo-Addo after the President failed to deal decisively with corruption since he ascended the highest office of the land.
Delivering an address at the Baah Wiredu Memorial lecture, the journalist lamented the continuous triumph of corruption in this country despite the ascension into the presidency of a man widely regarded as anti-corruption fighter.
Read excerpts of his address below
There was a GYEEDA scandal and the programme was suspended while certain actions were taken to clean up the mess, so there is a context to the decrease in numbers.
That GYEEDA scandal started with Kufuor who, for instance, handed Zoomlion that fraudulent NYEP contract in 2006. The Mahama/Mills administration made the GYEEDA rot worse.
One of the reasons I hated the Mahama regime was it failed to comprehensively deal with the GYEEDA rot. I was therefore happy when the NPP, on November 16, 2016, held a press conference on the GYEEDA rot, especially the Zoomlion contract.
They said Mahama could not abrogate it because he was benefitting from rots of that nature. Then the so-called incorruptible Akufo-Addo takes over. What did he do about that fraudulent and needless contract? Remember this contract said Zoomlion should go to Bongo and supervise sweepers employed by the government and receive 400 cedis out of the 500 cedis allocated to the sweepers?
The Akufo-Addo administration renewed that fraudulent contract. Yes, it was renewed. Note that since March 2013, there had not been a written agreement between the Government and Zoomlion. So by February 2019, that fraudulent deal cost the government 1.62 BILLION NEW GHANA CEDIS without a written agreement. This is one of the reasons I have lost trust and hope in Akufo-Addo. So Akufo-Addo is not different from Mahama. In this GYEEDA case, Mahama has proven to be far better than Akufo-Addo because he jailed people, cancelled contracts, enacted legislation that made GYEEDA cleaner. These are facts that cannot be contested.
Source: GhanaFeed.Com